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One place I regularly come across the use of the Command pattern is when working on Azure projects that employ worker roles to execute long running tasks initiated by a scheduled process or user action. The Command pattern lends itself to the distributed nature of these solutions with very little plumbing required when working in Azure.

The following post provides a sample application; CommandQueue which contains 3 examples of a web and worker role utilising the Command pattern. The web role is designed to provide a rapid responses to the user, offloading any lengthy operations to the worker role. The source code for the CommandQueue solution is available on GitHub so feel free to clone, compile and execute it while working through this post.

I’ve collated a short list of useful tips that I’ve picked up from various sources since I started working with jQuery. This is by no means an exhaustive list, just some tips that I’ve found invaluable when it comes to jQuery development.

For those of you who haven’t heard of jQuery it’s gained a lot of popularity over the last few years for making the following tasks incredibly simpler:

I recently created a working example of WCF service that is consumed by both a jQuery AJAX call and a ScriptManager AJAX call. I was interested to see how the WCF improvements offered by .NET 4 compared with the latest jQuery library (v1.7.1 at the time of writing). You can download the solution’s source code or take a look through this post where I discuss the particulars of this comparison. Continue reading →